Obama ad: “Time for a new economic patriotism”

posted at 11:21 am on September 27, 2012 by Erika Johnsen

Yesterday, Mitt Romney released a one-minute ad in which he spoke directly into the camera about the failures of Obama’s economic policy — and it looks like Team Obama followed suit (upping the ante with a two-minute ad spot, mmm hmm), having the president talk in a face-to-face format about his economic plan for the next four years. I suppose we’re meant to believe that this is what “giving specifics” on an “economic plan” looks like:

Now, Governor Romney believes that with that even bigger tax cuts for the wealthy and fewer regulations on Wall Street all of us will prosper. In other words he’d double down on the same trickle down policies that led to the crisis in the first place. So what’s my plan?

Enough with the big, fat “the same policies that got us here in the first place” lie. It’s hogwash.

First, we create a million new manufacturing jobs and help businesses double their exports. Give tax breaks to companies that invest in America, not that ship jobs overseas.

Pardon me, but how is it that you’re going to create these million marvelous manufacturing jobs when you’ve only failed spectacularly so far? Because giving tax breaks, a.k.a. providing subsidies, a.k.a. picking economic winners and losers, for your preferred businesses does not create jobs. And enough with this relentless demonization of “shipping jobs overseas” — if doing so helps us to obtain goods and services more cheaply and efficiently, which it does, that can and does create jobs, because that means we all have more disposable income and thereby are all wealthier.

Second, we cut our oil imports in half and produce more American-made energy, oil, clean-coal, natural gas, and new resources like wind, solar and bio-fuels—all while doubling the fuel efficiencies of cars and trucks.

No. Your administration has been steadily and purposefully impairing Americans’ ability to tap into our own abundant natural resources and blocking business opportunities for natural gas; clean coal is an expensive and costly nightmare; and your record on coercing Americans into using more wind/solar/biofuels — which currently hold exactly zero serious potential as viable, widespread substitutes for oil and gas — has failed tremendously, as have your many “green jobs” initiatives.

Third, we insure that we maintain the best workforce in the world by preparing 100,000 additional math and science teachers. Training 2 million Americans with the job skills they need at our community colleges. Cutting the growth of tuition in half and expanding student aid so more Americans can afford it.

Is this code for “more stimulus”, which translates into spending even more money we don’t have? Who is going to perform and pay for all of this additional training, exactly? Oh, let me guess — the federal government. Whoop-de-doo. And does anybody in your august administration realize that subsidizing student aid so that more Americans can afford going to college is going to hike demand — which is going to make tuition even more expensive? You can’t have it both ways, and hey, it might be nice of all of those college graduates could find jobs and maybe become capable of paying off all of that debt.

Fourth, a balanced plan to reduce our deficit by four trillion dollars over the next decade on top of the trillion in spending we’ve already cut, I’d ask the wealthy to pay a little more. And as we end the war in Afghanistan let’s apply half the savings to pay down our debt and use the rest for some nation building right here at home.

Even if I believed that you were going to suddenly reverse your trend of growing more than trillion-dollar annual deficits (which, given all that government spending implied above, I don’t), taxing the wealthy more isn’t going to necessarily increase revenue by much — and the damage to our economy is going to be infinitely worse.

It’s time for a new economic patriotism. Rooted in the belief that growing our economy begins with a strong, thriving middle class. Read my plan. Compare it to Governor Romney’s and decide for yourself. Thanks for listening.

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“It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.”

I don’t care what any poll is showing. I am so angry at this imposter and American hating liar I will crawl on my lips through broken glass to vote against him. I cannot believe I’m in the minority on this.

I can’t take him anymore. He needs to be defeated if only to make it stop. The lies, deceptions, obfuscations, distortions. It all has to stop. The sound of his voice with its annoying cadence and drops makes me want to scream.

I can’t wait til the debates, he thinks “cool” will carry the day. My guess is Romney, in polite sort of way, is going to get under his skin with the facts and by calling him out when he lies about the facts.

So let’s dust off the old detail free plan and add a million jobs to it. Let’s not define what a ‘job’ is or explain how we’ll ‘create’ them, because that would ruin the effect. I mean if we could just have 1000 more Solyndras, that would be 1 mil manufacturing jobs right? Nowhere did he say they would be sustainable jobs.

That’s Obama’s whole schtick after all: provide no real path on how he’ll achieve the outrageous promises, and simply blame it on headwinds/Bush/Do-nothing congress after the failure becomes self evident.

I think Stef Cutter is really hurting him as a spokestool these days too. She’s developing a nasty tic from the outrageous lies she’s spinning on his behalf and tends to double down. After claiming the economists are the ones predicting 12 mil jobs, she went on to say ‘we can do better’.

I don’t know who these undecided voters are, but I hope to God they have people around them who love them and can share with them what’s really behind the choice we face as a nation.

I like Erika’s posts. She’s exceedly good at putting into words all the pent up sarcastic and bitter sentiments I hold against this administation. In other words, she excels in the art if saying, “Get the f outta here and give me a break with all of that sh….” without actually SAYING that. ;)

All he’s trying to do is insert the word “patriotism” into his drivel because of his disastrous handling of the Benghazi situation.

Of course, he wants people to believe that he actually has an economic plan, however the reality is that he lies – always.

The next four years will be more of the same, i.e. looting the treasury for his cronies, ignoring the plight of American citizens as they remain out of work, blaming everyone and everything and whining that the situation was sooooo….. bad that it’s impossible to fix in two terms…. Americans simply expect too much from their leaders…. and not to be overlooked….. and intransigent Congress.

There are days when I can’t decide if he’s a narcissist or a sociopath. It doesn’t matter if we can get him out of office.

Soooo… if he’s far ahead in the polls, absolutely blowing out Romney in the swing states and reportedly going to win in a landslide…um, then why a desperate 2 minute ad to tell us all how wonderful he is????

Look at the mess I inherited. Don’t think about what I’ve done that didn’t work.

1,000,000 new manufacturing jobs = shovel ready!

Produce our own energy via oil (don’t ask about how many permits we approved to begin drilling cause the answer demonstrates this is a lie), clean coal (please forget that I said my administration would make you go bankrupt if you wanted to build a new coal plant), fuel efficient cars and green energy (please don’t link that to the GM bailout and the failure of the Chevy Volt or all of the “green” energy companies that went bankrupt even after we gave them hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars).

New public employees = Another failed stimulus (using money we don’t have, but it does mean the unions will support me!)

Balance the budget when congress hasn’t passed one in three plus years? Oh and Obamacare is going to kick in and that’s costing way more than we said it would now that we’ve actually read what’s in the bill. Balance the budget?!?! Ok, even I’m laughing at that one!

Look, just trust me. If you don’t you’re unpatriotic (that’s just good newspeak for racist).

Everything he says, every damn word, is either an out and out lie, a theft or the opposite of what he really means. One or the other. So every speech has to go through the “de-Obamaizing process” to be properly understood.

If the president calls for “economic patriotism” he really means, “give me more of your money”, which clearly falls into option 2 (“Theft”). If he says “the attack in Benghazi was a reaction to the movie trailer no one ever saw”, that is option 1 (“Outright Lie”). If he says, “I work very hard every day to protect this country”, that is option 3 (“opposite is true”).

Well that and the fact that universities have to have full department staff supporting womyn’s studies and afro-queer real estate theory to offer degrees that are absolutely worthless..except for creating more professors of womyn’s studies and afro-queer real estate theory.

Wow! The Failure-in-chief is really starting to sound unhinged! Creepy, is a perfect word for some of the Marxist slogans & Alinsky tactics coming from this regime. The biggest problem I see, is still the sycophants in the “Enemy media”, who need to have their lips surgically removed from Obama’s colon! The cover, they give their Messiah is reaching levels that, even the “old time” hacks(Even Woodward is talking about it), are feeling uncomfortable with. These clowns fear the Obama regime more then they fear losing their jobs or being humiliated and that’s got to stop! The only person the “Obama Enemy media” respects is Newt! They fear he’ll make them look intellectually inept! That’s what the Republican candidates need to do to get these clowns to think twice before they get obnoxious with them. There’s an easy & simple formula for going after the “Enemy media”, but the candidate has to have the “Intestinal Fortitude” to do it. Here’s a link to this concept: http://paratisiusa.blogspot.com/2012/09/an-open-letter-to-those-who-should-know.html?spref=tw

And does anybody in your august administration realize that subsidizing student aid so that more Americans can afford going to college is going to hike demand — which is going to make tuition even more expensive?

These are the same gullible fools that believed that Ryan referred to Romney as “Stench”. The same people who think you can borrow your way out of debt. The same poeple who think a good business plan is to make a product for $6 that you can sell for $1.50 (Solyndra) or $90,000 that you can sell for $45,000 (GM Volt). The same people that think borrowing money from China to pay people to do the equivalent of digging holes and then filling them in will produce economic prosperity. The same people that think paying a teacher’s salary for a year will magically produce a long-term job.

Everything he says, every damn word, is either an out and out lie, a theft or the opposite of what he really means. One or the other. So every speech has to go through the “de-Obamaizing process” to be properly understood.

MTF on September 27, 2012 at 11:39 AM

Mark Levin talked about this last night and compared it to the doublethink from Orwell’s 1984 – holding 2 opposite, conflicting beliefs at the same time and believing both, depending on the circumstances.

You are an “economic patriot” when you support tax increases to enrich the power and prerogatives of the U.S. political classes at the expense of the larger economy. But I belie my regressive character when I use terms like “tax increase” instead of the term “investments in our future,” or when I refer to the narrow interests of our political classes instead of e.g. “all Americans.”

Revision: You are an Economic Patriot when you support investing in the future for all Americans!

And as we end the war in Afghanistan let’s apply half the savings to pay down our debt and use the rest for some nation building right here at home.

So if I choose not to buy something in the future, it allows me reduce the current debt on my credit card and spend more on something else? Unless he’s trying to pull of a fish and loaves miracle, I don’t see how he’s going to reduce the deficit with that kind of economic logic.

apply half the savings to pay down our debt
Is there a single Obama voter who knows that to pay down your debt, you need to be running surplus’?

In what year does the stuttering clusterfluke plan on running a surplus?

MNHawk on September 27, 2012 at 11:42 AM

Exactly. Before you can pay down the debt you have to have a balanced budget. This will never happen under Obama. I think his math skills and those of his staff are too weak to comprehend this basic fact.

Mark Levin talked about this last night and compared it to the doublethink from Orwell’s 1984 – holding 2 opposite, conflicting beliefs at the same time and believing both, depending on the circumstances.

cep on September 27, 2012 at 11:43 AM

Round and round it goes…he just loves to jerk the weak mindeds chains…

Everybody pay the progressive jizya. Spend money you don’t have, invest / endanger savings in a jiggered environment whith the FedGov picking winners and losers, hire people you can’t afford so you can give them insurance and contraceptives. In other words, personal Keynesianism, bankrupt yourselves because the Obamunists haven’t managed to quite pull that off yet and they’ve only got about 85 days left to destroy capitalism in America.

Cutting the growth of tuition in half and expanding student aid so more Americans can afford it.

Too many students on aid is why tuition rates are rising so quickly.

I don’t quite get why that’s a difficult concept.

lorien1973

For me the bolded part is the most stunning stupidity in this. He’s not going to cut tuition in half, JUST the growth of tuition. So it’ll STILL be more expensive. Simply put, tuition will only grow stratospherically instead of astronmically.